Introduction: In this second of a multi-part series on the Hot Interconnects 2015 conference, held in Santa Clara, CA August 26-28, 2015. We cover Huawei’s open source activities, Deep Machine Learning and its application to networking (Brocade Research Dept), and Software Defined WANs (which is a much broader topic than SDN for WANs). The first article in the series may be accessed here. 1. Huawei: Huawei will host the 2016 Hot Interconnects at their Santa Clara, CA campus. The company is either #1 or #2 in the worldwide market for telecom/networking equipment. They are participating in several Open Networking/Open Source projects, including Open Daylight (ODL), ONOS, and the Open Compute Project (OCP). Huawei announced at the 2015 Open Networking Summit that it planned to be a commercial open source vendor of software for…